Christopher Deans Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa

• Manages day to day operations across 6 Men’s and Women’s Homeless facilities with a combined participant capacity of 275 beds. • Directly supervise more than 50 team members across 6 Men’s and Women’s Homeless facilities. • Prepares periodic reports, financial statements and records on program activities, progress, status or other special reports for management or outside agencies.• Designed and implemented fee-for-service billing infrastructure used to create, submit, and adjudicate claim submissions to program funders for payment. • Reconciled claim submissions and payment transfers from program funders to ensure precise disbursement of allocated budgeted funds. • Collaboratively manages and decides on program expenditures and budget allocations for 6 contracted facilities with a combined budget of more 2.5 million dollars per fiscal year. • Evaluates program effectiveness to develop improved methods and recommends and/or takes appropriate action. • Reviews client applications and referrals in addition to other program documents to determine client’s program acceptance. • Develops and recommend new or revised program goals and objectives. • Coordinates client programming such as groups, vigils, and other activities that provide resources to those in recovery. • Directly responsible for evaluating, training and developing all client care/peer support personnel. Regularly reviews and evaluates job performance of all client care/peer support personnel. Addresses client care employee grievances and complaints. • Schedules paid shelter staff and coordinates client care/peer support volunteers to ensure the shelter facility is adequately staffed to provide proper care and maintenance 365 days a year.

Millersville, Pa

• Recruited prospective students through school visits, group presentations, college fairs, campus tours, telephone communication and written correspondence.• Coordinated and attended undergraduate admissions recruitment travel for Philadelphia County, Baltimore County, Washington D.C., Southern New Jersey, and 30 other Pennsylvania counties. • Coordinated multicultural undergraduate admissions recruitment and all diversity initiatives for the Millersville University Office of Admissions. • Directly supervised 15 undergraduate students and 3 paraprofessionals who served as members of the Multicultural Outreach Team. • Evaluated approximately 1600 applications submitted to the Millersville University Office of Admissions from assigned territories and provided applicants with an admission decision.• Planned and managed the Pre-Scholars Institute, the Act 101 opportunity program for incoming freshman.• Taught seminar course for incoming freshman students. • Coordinated the Lancaster Partnership Program (LPP), a partnership program between Millersville University and J. P McCaskey High School. • Organizational Adviser for the Black Student Union, Fashion at Heart, Artist Rocking Together, and College Life at Millersville University.• Coordinated multicultural programing opportunities for the entire Millersville University campus community. • Served as a council member on the University Drugs and Alcohol Steering Committee.

• Served as program lead for the Pre-Scholars Institute, the Millersville University Summer Bridge program.• Supervised 20 undergraduate and 3 graduate students employed as peer staff, resident assistants, and outreach counselors. • Served as judicial hearing officer for Pre-Scholars Institute students.• Reviewed and approved all residential programming for the Pre-Scholars living-learning community. • Served as live-in Residential Coordinator for the Pre-Scholars Institute.• Served in On-Call and On-Campus Crisis Response duty rotation. • Served as a financial aid advisor, helping students apply and navigate the FAFSA, state, and federal loan/grant process.

Master'S Degree, Higher Education Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Speech Communication, Public Relations Option